Izmir: the Livio Minafra Quartet at the Jazz Festival
The Livio Minafra Quartet closed out Italy’s participation in the 19th Izmir Jazz Festival. Accompanied by the students of the Academy of Fine Arts of IKSEV, they playing to an audience of 400 persons who greeted the wind and percussion jam session energy and enthusiasm. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the […]
Read moreMARINES AND THE “ABDUCTED”: The commitment to bring them home – Terzi reports to the parliament, “foreign ministry resources shrinking rapidly”
In Minister Giulio Terzi’s report to the Lower House, following that of the Upper House, he informed the parliament on the government’s line of action in incidents in Nigeria and India and, more in general, with regard to all Italians still being held by kidnappers: “transparency” on the procedures the government intends to adopt and […]
Read moreMoscow: Furla, fashion becomes art: installation and new products
The Embassy of Italy in Moscow was the setting on 12 March for “Candy Brissima Show on Tour”. The initiative, sponsored by the Furla Foundation, gave Bolognese artist Sissi – winner of the 2002 “Furla per l’Arte” prize – a chance to present an installation of her work to a group of Russian fashion and […]
Read more”Trasparenza e ritorno a casa degli ostaggi” – Terzi al Senato, gli obiettivi del governo (in translation)
”Trasparenza” e ”impegno a riportare tutti gli ostaggi a casa”: sono le priorita’ del governo al centro dell’intervento del Ministro Giulio Terzi al Senato con particolare riferimento al blitz in Nigeria che ha provocato la morte dell’ingegnere italiano Franco Lamolinara e quella di un cittadino britannico, e all’arresto in India dei due maro’. Il governo […]
Read moreSIRIA: Terzi, Comunita’ internazionale agisca compatta (in translation)
“Il regime siriano conferma ferocia e cecità politica. La comunità internazionale agisca compatta e senza ulteriori indugi. Basta massacri”: lo scrive il Ministro Giulio Terzi in un tweet, mentre ad Ankara l’inviato di Onu e Lega araba Kofi Annan incontra l’opposizione siriana (il Consiglio nazionale siriano, Cns) che promette “piena cooperazione” politica e dice che […]
Read moreNigeria, Terzi in Senato: informazione Gb tardiva ma non intenzionale (in translation)
Il governo ha la “forte volontà” di procedere in modo “trasparente” sulla morte di Franco Lamolinara e di “condividere con il Parlamento” le informazioni di cui dispone. Lo ha detto il Ministro Giulio Terzi nella sua informativa nell’aula del Senato sul caso dell’ingegnere italiano rimasto ucciso in Nigeria nel corso di un blitz delle forze […]
Read moreHuman Rights must be asserted to ensure international security, says Terzi
“By asserting human rights, democracy and rule of law we can more effectively combat the deep sources of threat to international security”. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s message – read by Under-Secretary Marta Dassù – at the opening of the second cycle of encounters with students at the foreign ministry on the […]
Read morePrague-Bratislava: Dacia Maraini meets with her readers
Writer Dacia Maraini, who is also Italian Ambassador for Culture to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, took part on 7 March in ameeting at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague organised by the Prague committee of the Dante Alighieri Society entitled, “Dacia Maraini: narration”, which garnered both critical and public success. For international Women’s Day, […]
Read moreTunis: Promos mission to strengthen sme partnership
The objective of last week’s mission by the President of Promos–Chamber of Commerce of Milan Bruno Ermolli, within the context of the 10th regional conference of FEMIP, an EIB instrument that has helped develop the private sector of Mediterranean countries, was to strengthen the partnership between Italy and Tunisia in the sector of micro, small […]
Read moreORE 14.00 – MARINES: Ashton committed to positive solution, Monti says. EU contacts in India after Monti-Terzi intervention
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton “has committed to undertaking any possible further step toward a positive solution” to the affair involving two Italian servicemen in India. This was the message of Premier Mario Monti in a note issued in Brussels after a meeting with the High Representative, during which she supplied the Italian Premier with […]
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